Absolutely insane that an abandoned, unfinished (first?) draft should be so good.

Does anyone know what's happened to Peter Owen PeterOwenPublishers? Their website is busted, they've not published anything in ages and apparently they've been acquired by Pushkin @pushkinpress, but you search in vain on Pushkin's website for their (excellent) back-catalogue.

Nice of life to be just a near-constant firehose of joyless shit with just the occasional, absolute minimum-length break to trick you into keeping on going.

great work, everyone

I was listening to this and my daughter went up to my wife and said, 'I think dad's going through an emo phase.'

When you only see literature as a poor person's movie substitute. It's never a surprise to see how little style matters to most readers, but it's always depressing.

Love to put out an album with a spoken word sample so interminable and so tedious and so woolly minded that nobody will ever want to listen to it twice.

RELEASE RADAR on Spotify used to be useful, but now it's just a clogged stream of inoffensive dinky tunes credited to 5 different acts ('Farts McGee, The XX, Goldfrapp, Chunderbum, The Beatles') only one of whom I follow (Goldfrapp) and who had nothing to do with the song.

If I ever do either of these things, you have my permission to euthanise me.

How do people who read this stuff tell them apart?

Schiele shoes

look, if it works for you, great, for me polyamory sounds like the deepest circle of hell, and the fact that some of the primary strategies for surviving it come from fucking management consultant demons is just confirming everything i ever believed about it

On or about October 2023 human character changed (it's when all the people suddenly wanting to be friends with me on Goodreads all signed up at the same time for some reason)

I don't think I've ever seen anyone less troubled by being trapped in a shame world.

Really this should be three evenings, all at different times, and at least one of which is deeply unconvincing.

The beautiful satisfaction of seeing a shithead's defamation action blow up in their face and wreck whatever reputation they had left. There's nothing like it.